Kwame Opoku-Duku
@kwamethethird
poet & writer | author of DIVINE HOURS (@FourWayBooks, 2027) | editor @JoylandPub | rep: @shipman_agency
Beloveds, I'm beyond grateful to share that my debut full-length poetry collection, DIVINE HOURS, is forthcoming from @FourWayBooks! Massive thanks to my agent, Annie DeWitt, all the homies, and my ancestors.🫶🏾✨

Lucky to have two new poems in the just-dropped Spring issue of @kenyonreview 🖤 I also have audio up on the website. You can log in & read the whole stellar issue (so many of my faves!) & hear each of us read here: kenyonreview.org Many thx to the editors!
summer books summer books summer books themillions.com/2025/07/the-mi…
I wrote about if I want to throw israelis in the sea lol thenation.com/article/world/…
First time seeing my book in the wild with the @WhitingAwards sticker on it!
"If you ask me, he lucky he didn’t get cut up with his guts spilled out like this spaghetti, but it don’t matter." From "What Love Makes of Us" by Karisma Price, new this week in Joyland Magazine. joylandpublishing.com/fiction/what-l…
Vievee Francis’s blurb for my debut poetry collection, What We Do With God, forthcoming Sept 9th from @haymarketbooks ♥️.
My first short story! Please read ❤️
Today on Joyland: Karisma Price (@itsKayPrice) writes about the prison system, vengeance, and a woman trying to care for a son in a world that never protected her. joylandpublishing.com/fiction/what-l…
So excited for this Southern Gothic beauty to be live today!
Today on Joyland: Karisma Price (@itsKayPrice) writes about the prison system, vengeance, and a woman trying to care for a son in a world that never protected her. joylandpublishing.com/fiction/what-l…
Today on Joyland: Karisma Price (@itsKayPrice) writes about the prison system, vengeance, and a woman trying to care for a son in a world that never protected her. joylandpublishing.com/fiction/what-l…
I feel like we just glossed over Andrew Cuomo doing pro bono legal work for Benjamin Netanyahu
ICYMI: Andrew Cuomo joined Netanyahu’s legal team to defend him against war crime charges. He completely escaped any scrutiny on this at tonight’s NYC mayoral debate. He even said Israel would be his first trip as Mayor if elected.
THE TREVOR PROJECT CAN BE REACHED DIRECTLY AT 1-866-488-7386, EVEN WHEN THIS IS GOING TO BE GONE. PLEASE SHARE TO POSSIBLY SAVE SOMEONE’S LIFE.
The Trump administration is shutting down the National LGBTQ+ youth suicide lifeline on July 17th.
Confirmed that ICE is staying at the Cambria Hotel in Burbank. Address: 3501 N San Fernando Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505 Phone: 818-351-7157
Thank you for sharing. I have three poems in Guernica. 🥹
"With feathers in his throat, Baba Ngani Agba opens the morning. In that record, he and his apala band sing about kindreds." I really love this work a lot by @adedayo_agarau . It is an elegaic note with ethnopoetic sense Guernica: Ileya guernicamag.com/ileya/ via @GuernicaMag
Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995
Today is Mohammed’s funeral; he was murdered by an Israeli drone strike yesterday. This man was nothing but a shining example of humanity, doing his part to support the environment.
Mohamed Abdel Salam Nasrallah accidentally ran into a beehive in 2010 and didn't get stung. More than 11 years later, he owns 100 beehives that produce about 2,200 pounds of honey each year
Dear MAGA, The reason the Republican Party has created the “far-left, radical, extremist” label for those of us actually on the left (not the establishment Democrats), is because they are terrified that one day you’ll realize we are actually anti-war and that we want to make…
LA County Sheriffs abducted a little girl today in South Central Los Angeles from 49th and McKinley. Some of the agents were in civilian clothing so the community suspected that they were ICE agents. This is what community defense looks like
If they’re treating the goofy white Jewish candidate who ate a hot dog on a cyclone this way, the COMPTROLLER of NYC, I can only imagine what they’d do to anybody else.
.@bradlander just arrested at immigration court